timber-built

• “A piebald horse looms from the drizzle beside its new timber-built stable, and higher, on former downland with treeless hedges, the barley is yellowing.”

  The Guardian: Country diary

• “In the first place, the distance to the nearest inhabited country is very great -- over 2,000 geographical miles -- and in the second, there is a serious obstruction on this route in the shape of the belt of pack-ice, which, narrow and loose as it may be at times, will always necessitate the employment of timber-built vessels for the work of transport.”

  The South Pole~ The Eastern Sledge Journey

• “This tiny timber-built summer cabin is located in the woods between the coast and Lake Arresø in Northern Zealand.”

  Rock Blending Summer House in Vestfold, Norway

• “On this isolated and mewed-up bit of lawn stood a timber-built cottage, having ornamental barge-boards, balconettes, and porch.”

  The Hand of Ethelberta

• “The three structures around it were timber-built and tall, with wide doors.”

  Shield of Thunder

• “The timber-built town of Buev, a town which has several times been burnt to the ground, lies huddled upon a hillock above the river Obericha.”

  Through Russia

• “In the first place, the distance to the nearest inhabited country is very great — over 2,000 geographical miles — and in the second, there is a serious obstruction on this route in the shape of the belt of pack-ice, which, narrow and loose as it may be at times, will always necessitate the employment of timber-built vessels for the work of transport.”

  The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912

• “The manor house lay a little aside from the village and the church, timber-built on the stone undercroft, in level, well-drained fields, with gentle wooded slopes beyond.”

  The Confession of Brother Haluin

• “The Latin motto "Look and Go" reminded my brother of an old timber-built mansion in Staffordshire which, as it stood near a road, everybody stayed to admire, its architectural proportions being so beautiful.”

  From John O'Groats to Land's End

• “When they reached the village of Ombersley, about ten miles distant, they hastily refreshed themselves at the old timber-built inn, which in honour of the event was afterwards named the”

  From John O'Groats to Land's End

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